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  • The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

  • Your Journey to Mastery
  • By: David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
  • Narrated by: Anna Katarina
  • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (378 ratings)

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The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

By: David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
Narrated by: Anna Katarina
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The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech audiobooks you’ll listen, re-listen, and listen to again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time.

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.

Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. All the old favorite topics are there, updated for this new world. And there's a bunch of new content, reflecting what we've learned in the intervening years.

Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You’ll become a pragmatic programmer.

This audiobook is organized as a series of sections, each containing a series of topics. It is read by Anna Katarina; Dave and Andy (and a few other folks) jump in every now and then to give their take on things.

©2019 Pearson Education, Inc (P)2020 David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
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grab a copy

Essential to every developer. amazing narration. grab a copy for your library and have fun

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Better than ever

This is a really good audio book for playing as you bury your brain in code, coffee beans or Jelly Beans. There is a lot in this book. Loads of tips & tricks on many topics for coders to consider. Even if you have never progranned anything, you will learn why we love code and how we think. Because these tips, tricks & toppics can also be used in other ways in a nontechnical world.

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Awesome

What can I say this is a must read / listen to book for any programmer or software individual.

Many thanks to the authors and book for making this a enjoyable read / listen to

Simon @ big boffin dot com

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love it

the book is well written and spoken with a nice structure and the content is of excellent quality. I recommend it to all programmers

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I loved it!

I loved it! As a beginner in programming, I have learned a lot of tips and best practices from this book that I have immediately applied to my work.👍 The book is engaging and kerps you hook till the end as well. Thank you to the authors and editors for this great book!

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Good book, well read. Off to boil some frogs...

Enjoyed the recording, especially the audio changes made where there would be section of code in the written book. the authors chime in to 'describe' the ideas of code rather than monotonously reading it line by line.

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it was an interesting Adio book

from a developer standpoint it covering interesting processes from the beat way to code to how to work in a team. also working in agile way

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Very well narrated

I really enjoyed the book. Makes you think about what you do at your job.

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Worthy audiobook

So this was my first audiobook ever. I've heard a lot about the original book, and wanted to try out an audiobook to listen to my commute.

The audiobook is fantastic, code examples are illustrated very well.

The content is worthy and needed for all programmers.

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Pragmatic and reasonable

if a bit preachy at times and perhaps not so easily implemented in practice at every job.

Many aha moments and reasonable recommendations. Some lessons ive learned the hard way and some new.

a good useful read.

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